ORIGINAL: acdii

Well I had my first flight with the LT40 today with an OS 52 Surpass 4 stroke. The plane is one sweet flyer. Man I am just thrilled with it. Now if I can just get the engine tuned right, this will be my go to plane for sure.

The one I built is modified though, with 1 inch Dihedral, and it is a tail dragger, but even with that it is very stable and gentle, it doesnt have the self righting that the stock one does, so banking turns are nice, just pull the one wing down a bit and let it go, the plane just holds that turn until you move it back.

Man what a great 2 flights I had with it today. I highly recommend it for both building and flying.

With the 52 in it, takes offs are 3/4 throttle, leisurely flying at just under half throttle. I dont know what it will do at full throttle, the first time I went full throttle after a few minutes flying the engine quit, so I had a dead stick landing, but it settled in and landed on 3 wheels in the soybean field without a scratch. I wish I could say the same for my second landing, but not going into great detail on that, just going to say I had some mud to wipe off the nose cone and prop. The plane is the biggest one I have flown so far, so I need to work on my distance judgement, I came in too far out. but it lands so nice and slow.